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Anaesthetic

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  • An operation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1910
  • Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • The Walton-Minnitt Gas Air Apparatus, circa 1937
  • Epidural anaesthesia, artwork
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    Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

    Macroscopic Solutions
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    Snow's Chloroform Inhaler

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    Anaesthesia, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
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    Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)

    Sue Snell
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    Epidural anaesthesia, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
All works (15)

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